Description
Original provider: UK Royal Navy Dataset credits: United Kingdom Royal Navy Abstract: This dataset includes unclassified incidental sightings of cetaceans from the United Kingdom Royal Navy ships. The dataset is global in coverage.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,407 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Maughan, B. and K. Arnold. 2010. UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations. Version 2.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/2b9d75fd.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5136e139-312d-47d0-a665-dc8e6b351254. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/64 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/64/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/64/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-74.65, -122.43], North East [70.33, 159.23] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Order | Cetacea (Cetaceans) |
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| Family | Balaenopteridae (Rorquals), Delphinidae (Dolphins), Phocoenidae (Porpoises) |
| Genus | Balaenoptera (Baleen whales), Eubalaena (right whales), Globicephala (Pilot whales), Hyperoodon (bottle-nosed whales), Lagenorhynchus (White-beaked dolphins), Mesoplodon (Beaked whales), Stenella (Spinner dolphins) |
| Species | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei whale), Balaenoptera brydei (Bryde's whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Caperea marginata (Pygmy right whale), Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Commerson's dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Eschrichtius robustus (Gray whale), Eubalaena australis (Southern right whale), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned pilot whale), Globicephala melas (Long-finned pilot whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Hyperoodon planifrons (Southern bottlenose whale), Kogia breviceps (Pygmy sperm whale), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked dolphin), Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale's dolphin), Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Hourglass dolphin), Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Dusky dolphin), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False killer whale), Sousa chinensis (Chinese white dolphin), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical spotted dolphin), Stenella clymene (Clymene dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Stenella frontalis (Atlantic spotted dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale) |
| Subspecies | Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda (Pygmy blue whale) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1947-10-21 / 2003-03-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_64 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_64 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Maughan, Ben. 2003. United Kingdom Royal Navy Cetacean Sightings.
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS.
| Purpose | The Royal Navy often operates in remote areas and the purpose of collecting this sort of data is to contribute to a better scientific understanding of cetacean distributions, breeding areas, migration routes, etc. By ensuring that Royal Navy personnel keep watch for cetaceans helps them to comply with current risk mitigation measures. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/2b9d75fd |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/64 | |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5136e139-312d-47d0-a665-dc8e6b351254 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/5a804d4e-7393-46ff-971c-0beceba02086 | |
| 5136e139-312d-47d0-a665-dc8e6b351254 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_64 |